Disabled-friendly website design - American Disabilities Act (ADA) / 508 compliance standards website design.
Your Business Website Is Likely Ignoring up to Tens of Millions of people!
How are businesses ignoring nearly 20% of the population in the United States? Most websites, including business websites, are not designed to meet the American Disabilities Act (ADA) / 508 compliance standards. When your website is corrected to meet disabled-friendly standards, meaning ADA / 508 compliant specifications, you're opening your business to wider audience.
This is a big mistake for businesses and web design firms. According to Census.gov there are about 56.7 million people suffering from some form of disability in the United States. That's nearly 20 percent of the population. Also according to Census.gov, more than half of are reporting the disability as "severe". It's simply not good business to ignore 57 million people.
Our 508-compliant web designs are fully featured so you can easily make changes to the content
Your public or private website still needs to be updated. Who do you want to manage your content? If you want to have full control where you can manage your content from a secure web-browser, we're your web design firm. Do you sell products and need a 508-compliant ecommerce website design? We do that, too. You also have fully featured ecommerce business management functions in your secure member's area.
How your business can make a big difference to those with disabilities?
Smart businesses are upgrading their website as quickly as possible in an effort to better serve their customers. At the same time they're being rewarded by happy customers who are able to navigate the website, find the information they're looking for quicker, and in the case of ecommerce websites, they're able to purchase items with ease. Disabled-friendly website design can be a boon to your business while providing superior customer service forges greater customer relationships.
508 Compliant Corporate Websites Are A Win-Win Solution
Incorporating 508 compliant website design specifications into corporate websites can help employees get their work done faster and more efficiently. Disabled-friendly corporate websites may help companies who contract or subcontract with government agencies remain compliant with state or federal regulations.
What is a 508 Compliance?
An Accessible, 508 Compliant website means that anyone, regardless of the ability to manipulate a mouse, regardless much vision they have or being color blind, regardless of whether they can hear, and regardless of whether they have use of their hands, can use the exact same website as a fully-abled person.
What Solution Does WebsiteForge Offer?
WebsiteForge has completed major system-upgrades to their already user-friendly content management system to allow production and user-performed site maintenance on fully 508 Compliant websites.
Section 508 website compliance can be challenging and is not a job for the inexperienced. Elements of a website such as linking, navigation, images, page structure, organization and proper coding need to be carefully planned and properly implemented to provide true accessibility - and with WebsiteForge, easy maintenance in the future.
Suppose after your website was built you found out that it would not work in a popular browser, like Safari - which is roughly 10% of all website visitors. You would likely (and understandably) be very upset. Yet, Website Owners are rarely informed about an even larger group of potential Website Visitors they're either missing out on or likely alienating, the Disabled.
According to the Office for National Statistics, in May 2015, about 73% of disabled adults use the internet. If your website is not user-friendly for the disabled you are missing out on potential Clients and possibly alienating the Disabled Persons who have visited the website and found it difficult or impossible to use.
For more information on getting an ADA disabled-friendly, 508 website design contact WebsiteForge today for more details.
